Reviews
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Fragile
O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
North Korea: Traditional Songs
This album features traditional north-western seodo sori, a genre of songs once associated with courtesans, and a smattering of collective...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Madjafalao
Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
One of the great West African big bands of the 1970s, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo were Benin’s answer to Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
More Than One
From the very beginning of this album it is apparent that we are dealing with musicians as equally well-versed in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot
Professional photographer-turned-singer-songwriter Mr Alec Bowman may have swapped the darkroom for the recording studio but it still doesn't seem to...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2020
Botany Bay
This new album of traditional songs from Hertfordshire's Kelly Oliver is produced by Megson's Stuart Hanna, who manages to frame...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: November/2018
